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Ideas Are Not Enough; Books of The Times Abdication of Responsibility' Inscrutable Stereotypes

BY ANATOLE BROYARD ();

February 11, 1974,

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THE SIGHTSEER. By Geoffrey Wolff. 272 pages. Random House. $6.95. In Geoffrey Wolff's "The Sightseer," ideas are more alive than people. The author has a classy imagination, luxurious with metaphors-brilliant, up-to-the-minute metaphors about the relation between life, death, love, art, truth and urgent things like that.

February 11, 1974

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